Representation

Headshots

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2015/11/back-in-business.html/feed01790Showreel Releasedhttp://andyboyns.com/2015/05/showreel-released.html
http://andyboyns.com/2015/05/showreel-released.html#respondWed, 13 May 2015 20:44:43 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1738 Read More +]]>Cinema, television, corporate videos, and presentations. Andy Boyns is proud to present his first on-camera showreel. With 10 years experience as a voice actor, and over 5 years in front of the camera, see below how to book him for your next project.

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2015/05/showreel-released.html/feed01738Avea TV advert – behind the sceneshttp://andyboyns.com/2015/04/avea-tv-advert-behind-the-scenes.html
http://andyboyns.com/2015/04/avea-tv-advert-behind-the-scenes.html#respondSun, 12 Apr 2015 14:42:34 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1725 Read More +]]>I happen to love çığ köfte, so it was especially fun to have this role in the recent Avea advertisement featuring the English guy who doesn’t know how to make it…

Hi, I’m John.

I’m English, and I’ve lived in Turkey for 4 years.

I don’t know how to make çığ köfte, but I do know how to use to the internet using Avea!

Released in cinemas on 9th January 2015, here is the trailer which includes my cinema début:

Riza (Fatih Artman) is a minibus driver universally loved by the folk of Surici, the neighborhood of Istanbul where he was born and raised. Ayperi (Hande Doğandemir) on the other hand is the outsider who will turn Riza’s life upside down, as well as everything he knows and is familiar with. This is the story of two young people nestling under the wing of timeless friendship in an ordinary neighborhood. Actors such as Cengiz Bozkurt, Devrim Yakut, Sadi Celil Cengiz, Andy Boyns together with Yılmaz Erdoğan, Gökçe Bahadır and Gürkan Uygun in guest roles, appear in this film.

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2015/01/bana-masal-anlatma-cinema-release.html/feed01655Cutting Edge Voiceover Recording Technologyhttp://andyboyns.com/2014/12/cutting-edge-voiceover-recording-technology.html
http://andyboyns.com/2014/12/cutting-edge-voiceover-recording-technology.html#respondSat, 13 Dec 2014 18:42:10 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1498 Read More +]]>Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, you’re going to want a piece of this awesome technology specially designed for the voice actor on the go!
This summer, having worked hard on their development, Mehmet Onur and I took the Peepers for a spin, and as you can see from the clip below the user experience and results are both awesome.

Guided by the voice of our very own Anne Ganguzza, the Peepers have taken into account all the voice actor’s needs from providing an easy to read script, voice activated recording, payment delivery, and most importantly, providing a reward at the end of a voiceover session.

Our main concern while testing was that being able to recreate a studio quality recording while walking along the street could have a negative effect on the pro studios and engineers we know and love. Fortunately coinciding with the release of this clip, the VO Peeps meetup in Orange County, (streamed via UStream, and now archived and available here) had as their guest Steve M. Savanyu of Audio Technica who will no doubt enjoy resolving these issues.

We gave the Peepers a huge thumbs up, and are now working on that other essential for voice actors, the streaming food transporter, so that we can fully enjoy the VO Peeps meetups, and the legendary culinary expertise of Jerry Ganguzza!

Links

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2014/12/cutting-edge-voiceover-recording-technology.html/feed01498Audio Descriptionhttp://andyboyns.com/2014/04/audio-description.html
http://andyboyns.com/2014/04/audio-description.html#commentsTue, 29 Apr 2014 14:37:44 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1401 Read More +]]>Getting out of the car, my friend Flavio said, “Next time we come to the cinema, I’ll lend each of you a white cane – that’ll really freak everyone out if they think the driver is blind too!”

Flavio had lost his sight in a road accident aged 15, but twenty years ago was an excellent example to me of how he was still higher functioning than most people I knew. Parachute jump fundraisers perhaps pushing the limits further than I’d want to go, he’d just started a Fine Arts degree at university, specialising in tactile art – after all he used to ask me to check his socks were in matching pairs…

It shouldn’t be surprising that he also enjoyed television and cinema, but if even then there were accessibility tools for the hard of hearing (closed captions, signing) the age of audio description had yet to come.

As a teenager I’d had the chance to assist for a short while with a project for an audio newspaper for the blind, and in 2010 enjoyed catching up with Herb Merriweather at the Los Angeles Radio Reading Service.

Herb, and the crew at Audioeyes are the driving force behind a project bringing accessibility to the blind audience, in a way that would have hugely benefitted my friend Flavio’s experience all those years ago – audio description.

Here’s news about an online event on May 14 (date to be repeated!!) through which you can learn more about this exciting voiceover niche, and facility for the blind. I know it’s exciting, because in a recent Skype conversation with Herb Merriweather, I had to scrape my tablet off the ceiling!!!

What happens when you put blind people, entertainment professionals, and educators in one place? Video Description Magic! That’s what happens.

SAVE THE DATE

May 14, 2014, Audio Eyes, an accessible media company, will make history, and you can be part of it! The first ever, live, crowdsourced description event will allow you to contribute, in real time, to the magical process that will make a feature film accessible and enjoyable for people with vision loss. Ask questions, make comments, influence the final script!

Never heard of description? Learn how TV programs are made accessible for people who cannot see the screen. Did you know that video description is available on your TV every day? If you tried to share a YouTube video with a blind friend or relative, how would they know what was on the screen?

Educators and entertainment professionals may wonder about the cost and time required to make a video accessible. Log on and hear answers from the blind professionals who are making a difference in the media industry.

All blind consumers are encouraged to log on and help demonstrate how your opinions can make description better.

Join Audio Eyes and the Described Captioned Media Program for this
ground-breaking, live web event, and make magic happen:

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2014/04/audio-description.html/feed11401New voiceover niche!http://andyboyns.com/2014/03/new-voiceover-niche.html
http://andyboyns.com/2014/03/new-voiceover-niche.html#commentsTue, 04 Mar 2014 22:47:35 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1394 Read More +]]>Crafting any voiceover demands far more than just reading the words off the page. Focus, creativity, imagination, interpreting the character in the copy, attention to detail, and much more besides. This is especially true for audiobook readers, as they work to find the right mood for the narration, and worry about how many chapters can be finished before bedtime.

However, in spite of this concentration on completing what for many has been described as a marathon work, it has become apparent that many are forgetting to record a vital piece of the manuscript. The page numbers. Recent research, as found from BOMUS.org (the Bureau of Made Up Statistics) demonstrates that at least 99% of audiobook narrators fail to include page numbers in their submitted recordings.

Together with my son William (his 8th birthday at the end of this month) we have devised a new service to assist already over-burdened narrators to compensate for this oversight.

In preparation for the recent VO Peeps meetup with Simon Vance we prepared this video demonstration.

The VO Peeps meetup with Simon was a blast – even though based in Istanbul it meant waking up at 4.30am. Anne Ganguzza, as ever, put together a great programme, and if you haven’t joined eith in person (for those close to Orange County), or online, I thoroughly recommend watching out for the next event she organises. No excuses, especially if you’re in the same or close time zone! (They usually aim to start at 6.30pm PST)

Links

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2014/03/new-voiceover-niche.html/feed51394Ellen! Take a look at this!http://andyboyns.com/2013/12/ellen-take-a-look-at-this.html
http://andyboyns.com/2013/12/ellen-take-a-look-at-this.html#commentsSat, 14 Dec 2013 20:05:42 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1380 Read More +]]>In my last post, one of the videos I featured was a great clip featuring the voice talent of Lisa Biggs and some toys she voiced, together with Diane Merritt as they fortuitously passed through a toy store. It was purrrfect! The monkey was unavailable for comment (he’d been sold out!) but happily Carolina Now took the opportunity to bring these two Voxy Ladies together for an interview this week, and the monkey has lots to say!

A little bird tells me that a couple of the toys which Lisa has voiced will be featured in this Monday’s broadcast of the Ellen Show – hopefully I’ll get the chance to see it here soon in Turkey, but a thought came to me: wouldn’t Lisa Biggs be a great guest for the show!

On the one hand if Ellen is indeed going to have the toys on the show, then as the voice Lisa would bring an extra dimension, or as the French might say a “je ne sais crois” to the spot. What a great and inspiring story she has to share (as we heard in my “Person Behind the Voice” interview from last year). Lisa has it all – perfect Ellen material! (I hope Lisa will forgive me for that, but as she says, “I mean, you have a gift. You have a dream… Anything you want to do, you can do! You got to make it happen.” )

STOP PRESS!!!!

Cuddles the Monkey & Daisy the Kitty sing a Duet for Ellen DeGeneres

Well, it’s a blog, so we didn’t really stop the press, but here’s a NEW, and SPECIAL message from Lisa to Ellen!

Cuddles, Daisy, and Lisa’s Voice!

Yes, Ellen… make the gang complete, or do a follow up to talk with Lisa about the great things she’s accomplished and the great projects she’s involved with to help kids – look forward to seeing the show

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2013/12/ellen-take-a-look-at-this.html/feed21380Virtually a day with friendshttp://andyboyns.com/2013/11/virtually-a-day-with-friends.html
http://andyboyns.com/2013/11/virtually-a-day-with-friends.html#commentsSat, 23 Nov 2013 20:03:12 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1374 Read More +]]>What an amazing weekend it was: just one or two hours’ sleep and global interactions. Sharing news, a recording session, and the opportunity to hook up live with Joe Cipriano’s book launch party – with a simultaneous international side party too boot!

Taking part in the VO Peeps “Living On Air” book launch with Joe Cipriano!

If you didn’t already know, I’m excited, and feel privileged, to have such great friends – in the real, not just “Facebook” sense – around the world, and constantly amazed that technology enables us to keep in close and very real contact with each other. Apart from facilitating some fun and creative opportunities, this also provides inspiration to keep me moving forward.

Back to Saturday, a couple of weeks ago now… starting locally (probably while all in the US were still asleep) I came across this great example of Mehmet Onur’s work for the “YouTube Music Awards”. Don’t worry if you don’t understand Turkish – just enjoy his voice!

It has to be said that although we often do communicate via various messenger apps, I’m very fortunate to be able to easily visit him as when recording he always makes me sound great, and he makes a great coffee!

No trouble with language with the next clip, especially if you speak cat, as this is a wonderful conversation between Lisa Biggs, and a toy cat with Lisa Biggs’ voice – caught live in a toy store which she just happened to visit with Diane Merritt on a road trip to Nashville.

Yes, Lisa and Diane are always purrrrfect, and I just love the synergy they both produce. They’re both a constant reminder to me that you get out of something what you put in to it. In short: they rock! Thanks to Diane for uploading this to YouTube…

Then came a message from my buddy Ted Mcaleer in Seville, Spain, wondering if I was available to record a short dialogue. We hooked up on Skype, recorded our two voices locally, and then he edited them together. A fun little job, and I decided over the coming days to use this to experiment with the animation software Muvizu. I plan to write a separate blog about this in a day or two, but it would be cruel to keep the results from you here, so here it is (this was my first attempt at animation, so forgive that it’s not more polished!)

The big event of the day was to happen several hours later – in fact in the middle of the Turkish night.

VO Peeps, organised by the wonderful Anne Ganguzza, hosted the launch party of Joe Cipriano’s new book, “Living on Air”. As the first honorary international VO Peep I’d love to be more involved with all the wonderful activities and events which Anne organises. With our time zones (for events set in the evening PST) so much in conflict this isn’t always easy, but I was determined to be there to support Joe for the launch. In fact it was a great time hooking up with the live stream on UStream, and given an extra dimension with a separate Google video hangout joined with Ted Mcaleer, Suzanne Roberts, and Mehmet Onur.

As you will have seen from the photo at the top of this post it was like being there in person, and here’s the pre-recorded shout out I sent.

Now was it just me, or does Joe Cipriano look like he’s hanging on my every word in that clip?

]]>http://andyboyns.com/2013/11/virtually-a-day-with-friends.html/feed31374Çay Molası – TV series travelling round Turkeyhttp://andyboyns.com/2013/09/cay-molasi-tv-series-travelling-round-turkey.html
http://andyboyns.com/2013/09/cay-molasi-tv-series-travelling-round-turkey.html#respondThu, 05 Sep 2013 21:04:52 +0000http://andyboyns.com/?p=1334 Read More +]]>Q: What’s the best way to explore a country? A: Make a TV series!

A month or so back many were vicariously travelling with me along the Black Sea coast, along the north of Turkey through my Facebook photos. Well, for those lucky enough to be here now, you can now watch the series every Saturday at 10am on Ülke TV.

In fact, Çay Molası has confirmed my role as a professional tourist, having played a tourist earlier this year in the two TV series Seksenler and Umutsuz Eve Kadınları (Desperate Housewives)!

This was a tremendous experience, and a great way to get to know the region where my wife and so many friends grew up. Also interesting to have the opportunity to be co-presenting in Turkish – quite a challenge, but exciting to discover that I now have yet another string to my bow!

An Englishman, Andy Boyns, and a Turk, Gözde Şerbetçi, jump into a caravan and start to explore Turkey. Visiting the beautiful sights of Turkey, their share their exciting moments with you – beautiful images with two different perspectives.

Travelling along the Black Sea coast, first discovering the walking sticks of Devrek, then continuing through Zonguldak, Amasra, Sinop, Ordu, Rize, and beyond to get their fill of this wonderful region.

Discovering history, nature, people, culture, and daily life the duo who explore with excitement from start to finish …